Weather - Spain recording their highest ever April temperatures

In April 2023, there was a sharp contrast in air temperatures across Europe.

In southwest Europe, temperatures were well above the 1991-2020 reference period, with Spain and Portugal recording their highest temperatures in April; this extreme heat also extended over Morocco where it, too, had its hottest April temperature. On 27th April, a temperature of 38.8°C was observed in Córdoba, Spain.

With an average temperature over mainland Spain of 14.9 °C, a value 3.0 °C above the average for this month (ref. period 1991-2020), last April exceeded, by 0.1ºC, April 2011, which was the warmest since the series began in 1961.

Globally, April 2023 was:

- 0.32°C warmer than the 1991-2020 average for April

- the joint fourth warmest April in this data record

- about 0.2°C cooler than April 2016, the warmest April on record

- similar in temperature (within 0.02°C) to the Aprils of 2017 and 2018.

European-average temperature anomalies are generally larger and more variable than global anomalies. The European-average temperature for April 2023 was 0.23°C higher than the 1991-2020 average. The month was about 1.7°C cooler over Europe than April 2018, the warmest April in the record.

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